Disabling physical button in CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives in Linux

If you need to disable the physical button in CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives in Linux, you can use these instructions on Ubuntu based distributions:

• Copy /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d
• Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom_id.rules
• Comment out the line that has ENV{DISK_EJECT_REQUEST}
• Use the eject utility to disable the physical button: sudo eject -i on /dev/cdrom